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Firstly I would suggest having a look at creating a theme in the Codex. It's always a good place to start. Also I will add that the only way to relay these kind of instructions is under the assumption that you know at least the very basics of PHP and CSS or this might need to be done by someone who has.

In order to move your last post info over, you will need to create another column in your group view display. This is easily do-able but because it involves adding to the structure, it will take some work.

The general idea is, you have columns defined in unified.php such as:

div#spColGroup1, 

div#spColGroup2 etc.. 

and also the overlay files (such as blue, berries'n'cream, etc..) like:

$ColGroup_1[0]        = '6%';

$ColGroup_2[0]        = '45%';

You should be able to see from the template spGroupView.php that the information is put into 4 columns. 1st - Icon, 2nd - Title, 3rd - info, and 4th - status icons. You will need to create a 5th column that will go between the 3rd and 4th. You need to define this column in the overlay, and as the 4 already make up 100%, you will need to shorten the other(s). I'd suggest shortening column 3 as you are removing the longest part of that and moving it to your new column. You will then need to define this column in unified.php along with the others, with a call to the variable you just created in the overlay.

Finally, in your spGroupView.php you can then add the new column in-between the 3rd and 4th, and move the 'sp_ForumIndexLastPost' function into it. Remember when editing unified.php make sure you are only changing the desktop sections, NOT mobile. You can tell the difference as the desktop sections are defined under if($spDevice != 'mobile') {       (i.e is not mobile)

Sounds long winded, but it all makes sense in the long run. And might take a bit of tweaking to get exactly right.

The same principal applies to the second question you have, except this time you are not looking at spGroupView.php, but spForumView.php. It work's exactly the same, except you now want to look at adding columns to the following- in unified.php:

div#spColForum1  

and in the overlay:

$ColForum_1[0]

and then you can add the 4th column to your spForumView.php

If you want to remove the date and or time displayed in the forum view, you can do that by looking in spForumView.php and finding the two functions sp_TopicIndexLastPost, and sp_TopicIndexFirstPost. You have an argument of nicedate, date, and time which if all set to 0 will not display.

You can move the ShareThis icon next to the RSS button by opening spGroupView.php, and spForumView.php respectively, and cutting the whole line including the function 'sp_ShareThisForumTag' and moving it underneath the sp_ForumHeaderRSSButton in the section above it.

The Icons can be changed by using the same name, in the images folder in your forum-themes/unified/. By default SP will look for a custom icon here, before going with the default. This applies to every icon throughout your forum.

I would suggest making your theme a child theme of unified once these changes are made, or the next time there is an update it will erase all changes made.

Hope this helps